Drawdino

Leah Buechley brought up a great idea about using graphite pencils tied with an Arduino. There is a site devoted to Drawing + Arduinos called DRAWDINO. It's really fun what they're doing with making music and drawing circuits:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~silver/drawdio/

Electroluminescent Ink

Link to a video on a demo of electroluminescent ink on Vimeo

notes on raster vs. vector

Notes about raster and vector files and how to convert raster images to vector (using Illustrator Cs2 or later) for laser-cutting, etc... 

Also, here is Adobe's document on creating vector content using Illustrator. 

homework #1:

For next week, Feb 25, post on this patterns link five images of patterns you have found interesting.

Also, develop a pattern of your own for digital printing and another (or a variant of the first) for laser-cutting. 

See notes on raster vs. vector and how to prepare your files for the machines.